It’s interesting who we call terrorists and who we don’t. If an Arab nation or organization had done this it would have been called a terrorist attack. Israel does it and people defend it.

Terrorist is a meaningless scare word for “people we don’t like”.

That’s tough to hear. I had high hopes for Axiom. Space is a brutal industry. You can’t run a private company the same way you run a government program.

Most of the Olympic shooters use fancy gear like special eyepieces and what not. This guy Yusef Dikec from Turkiye rolled up without all that, stuck one hand in his pocket, shot with both eyes open and took silver along with his partner Sevval Tarhan.

Too many people fall for black and white thinking and tribalism. If you support X you must be against Y, or if you don’t support X you must support Y.

There are niches for everything on tiktok. Best way to deal with them is to not engage.

What’s stopping you from creating an email address that you never use for anything else?

[Bernie] may be old, but he’s still mentally intact.

At that age mental acuity can go fast. I would vote for Bernie over Trump or Biden in a heartbeat, but I would rather have someone younger.

Dude’s got more than enough on his plate, but maybe we could find an American comedian who plays piano with his dick

Blackout with two asterisks:

Puts things down, where’d it go: I usually don’t do this, but only because I am very deliberate and systematic about where I put things. Similar to the sock question. (Do socks bother you? No, because I have a system)

Walking into walls (and other stationary objects): I don’t do this much anymore, but I did quite a bit as a child.

If something can be misused for political leverage, it will be.

Just cut to the chase and provide the education. If everyone has access to robust and adequate education then you don’t need the test.

My childhood home phone number is more burned into my memory than my current phone number.

Yes, but they got it from earlier companies, like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.

Oxford comma, ride, or die

I love militant descriptivists

Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”

Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.

I love militant descriptivists

WE ASK THE QUESTIONS!

In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.

In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.